With all its gifts and opportunities it was a melancholy life-- melancholy with something not altogether explained by the somewhat pessimistic philosophy exposed in the
Journal, nor by the consumptive tendency of Amiel's physical constitution, causing him from a very early date to be much preoccupied with the effort to reconcile himself with the prospect of death, and reinforcing the far from sanguine temperament of one intellectually also a poitrinaire.
The Article in the Daily Telegraph.--War between the Scientific
Journals.-- Mr.
One-fourth of the first page is taken up with the heading of the
journal; this gives it a rather top-heavy appearance; the rest of the first page is reading-matter; all of the second page is reading-matter; the other six pages are devoted to advertisements.
“Very well, Benjamin,” said the sheriff, writing in his
journal; “I believe I have caught the idea.
Perhaps it was reading the
journal yesterday that upset me, and then Jonathan went away this morning to stay away from me a whole day and night, the first time we have been parted since our marriage.
Mercy had only to read the manuscript
journal to be able to answer any questions relating to the visit to Rome and to Colonel Roseberry's death.
Among the gentry of America; among the well-informed and moderate: in the learned professions; at the bar and on the bench: there is, as there can be, but one opinion, in reference to the vicious character of these infamous
journals. It is sometimes contended - I will not say strangely, for it is natural to seek excuses for such a disgrace - that their influence is not so great as a visitor would suppose.
"I have just come from the printing-office of the ministerial
journal (where I carried from the general-secretary an obituary notice of Monsieur de la Billardiere), and I there read an article which will appear to-night about you, which has given me the highest opinion of your character and talents.
Each house shall keep a
Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the
Journal.
In this volume I have used portions of letters which I wrote for the Daily Alta California, of San Francisco, the proprietors of that
journal having waived their rights and given me the necessary permission.
I have not got the ship's
journal to refer to, and I cannot now call to mind the latitude and longitude.
The
journals, and letters, also, of the adventurers by sea and land employed by Mr.